After reading these two articles, there are a few things I learned about writing dialogue. You can make a conversation more interesting by being creative with characters. By giving characters a background story, which includes geography, age, eduction, etc., you can give a character "life." Playing around with these different characteristics will make a conversation more engaging. Next: keep it simple. Even though a simpler conversation isn't exactly what happens in real life, it is easier for an audience to read an comprehend. This also relates to the previous reading by Krug, in which he states to cut out all "happy talk." I can use this tip to cut out any details that aren't important to the story, which will keep me from babbling on in my writing as I tend to do.
In part two, a few tips changed my mind on writing dialogue. For example, the article talks about dialogue tags and interjecting them wherever necessary. This is something I can understand, however I was surprised at the tip "don't get too colorful with tags." Here, the thesaurus idea is shot down. I originally thought that using different words to spice up writing, even in something as small as the dialogue tags, would be useful, but here I see that this just distracts from the story. I will be sure to follow this guideline in my Unit 3 PWS. Additionally, I also like that this article stated that technically you can do whatever you want with your writing because it is called creative writing. I have always been hesitant about how certain things should be written and never realized until now that it's my choice-- it's my writing.
Both of these articles were helpful in pointing out the do's and dont's of dialogue. I learned tips I can use in Unit 3.
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